§ 4.1-300 Illegal manufacture and bottling; penalty
A. Except as otherwise provided in §§ 4.1-200 and 4.1-201, no person shall manufacture alcoholic beverages in the Commonwealth without being licensed under this subtitle to manufacture such alcoholic beverages. Nor shall any person, other than a brewery licensee or bottler’s licensee, bottle beer for sale.
B. The presence of mash at an unlicensed distillery shall constitute manufacturing within the meaning of this section.
C. Any person convicted of a violation of this section shall be guilty of a Class 6 felony.
History
The record of this law’s original creation isn’t available online. It has been modified 3 times. Those modifications are cataloged by “The Acts of Assembly,” a state publication, by year and chapter. Those modifications that can be read on the General Assembly’s website will be linked accordingly. Those modifications are as follows: in 1954, chapter 484; in 1974, chapter 460; in 1993, chapter 866.
Code 1950, § 4-57; 1954, c. 484; 1974, c. 460; 1993, c. 866.